Pilot Season: CBS Orders Three More Comedies

Bye-bye, Rules of Engagement?CBS has given pilot orders to three more comedies, including one starring Rules' Patrick Warburton, TVGuide.com has learned.Warburton would produce and star in Jacked Up, a multi-camera comedy about a beloved, recently retired baseball player, who finds ...

CBS has given pilot orders to three more comedies, including one starring Rules' Patrick Warburton, TVGuide.com has learned.

Warburton would produce and star in Jacked Up, a multi-camera comedy about a beloved, recently retired baseball player, who finds that adjusting to retirement isn't as easy as he thought it would be. Greg Malins will write and executive-produce with Doug Robinson.

While a formal decision hasn't been made about the future of Rules of Engagement, which returned Monday to 9.33 million and a 3.1, down from its Season 6 opener, its chances seem to be diminishing with Warburton's casting.

An untitled single-camera project from Julie Rottenberg and Elisa Zuritsky is based on an Israeli format about a married mom who struggles to balance family, life and work. Rottenberg and Zuritsky will write and executive-produce with Avi Nir, Ran Telem, Daniela London-Dekel and Dana Eden.

Bent's Tad Quill is writing and executive-producing a multi-camera comedy about a recently widowed father who raises his 12-year-old son while jumping back into the dating pool.